January 8, 1921

Give every possible assistance.
Forward this telegram to the Crimea, to the Crimean Revolutionary Committee for 
Ulyanov (Simferopol or wherever he may be) with a postscript: 
I support Ordzhonikidze's request.
Lenin

Moscow, Kremlin To Lenin
Rostov, January 7, 1921. Comrade Markov's mother is in the Crimea. 
For two and a half years there has been no news of her; she is completely alone, ill, 
without any means. Request assistance in finding her 
and, if she is alive, in placing her in some sanatorium. Her address was: 
Alupka, Lutovinova's dacha, in the fruit orchard.
Ordzhonikidze

# ON THE CRIMEAN HEALTH RESORTS
NOTE ON A TELEGRAM FROM THE HEAD OF THE HEALTH RESORT ADMINISTRATION D. I. ULYANOV
January 10, 1921

Moscow, People's Commissariat of Health to Semashko 
copy to Lenin

Request from 
Received the Council of People's Commissars decree of December 24,
Semashko a copy of his which clarifies the matter and strengthens our posi-
reply to me 
tion. I consider it necessary that you, in development 
. 
of this decree, subordinate the local Gubernia Health 
Lenin Department to me, because despite even this decree they continue to view the matter from the 
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height of their Crimean bell-tower. This must be done 
immediately in the most categorical form, 
otherwise at every step we will encounter inadmissible obstacles from the local authorities, 
who do not grasp the question in the scope required 
by the interests of the matter and the definite and clear 
directive of the Centre. Parallel with this, directives 
from the People's Commissariat of Health to the local Crimean bodies are necessary concerning the unconditional subordination of their interests to the general tasks of the Republic...
Ulyanov